How to Have Friends Over Safely

Keep the tables six feet apart, ask people to bring their own (everything) and stock up on pretty paper hand towels. Read more...

Armed New Black Panthers march to protect demonstrators as they join peaceful protests in Georgia

Video has surfaced showing New Black Panther members dressed in all-black, marching arm-in-arm as theyformed a line to protectBlack Lives Matter protesters during a march in Atlanta Friday. Read more...

The 6 N.B.A. Updates to Know

In this weeks newsletter, Stein discusses the N.B.A.s plans to try to return from the coronavirus pandemic, with the backdrop the continuing reaction to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Read more...

Villanova Still Wont Have Its First One-and-Done in Decades

The freshman Jeremiah Robinson-Earl was one of several high-profile college basketball players to withdraw from the N.B.A. draft or to not enter it at all, citing uncertainty related to the pandemic. Read more...

Polymer coating for plants could be safer alternative to pesticides

A new polymer coating developed at the University of Nottingham could serve as a safer alternative to pesticides in controlling harmful fungi that devastates plant crops. Read more...

'Hamlet' in the skies? The story behind Taiwan's newest airline

Debuting its first flights in January 2020, Taiwanese start-up STARLUX Airlines could be the first new player in 30 years to upend the island's duopoly aviation market. Read more...

Shopping for Outdoor Coffee Tables

Because you need one to anchor any outdoor seating arrangement and to avoid spilled drinks. Read more...

Do You Want Your Parents to Stop Asking You How Was School?

How do you talk about school with your parents? Do they ask you how your day was every afternoon? Or does school only come up when you're in trouble? Read more...

Live, From a Connecticut Backyard, Its a Sport!

For a platform tennis championship, the players socially distanced by wearing gloves and not touching the same tennis balls. There was a trophy, but the winner didnt take it home. But this was live sports, and ESPN streamed it. Read more...

Coronavirus England Infection figures may be triple ONS data

Public Health England and Cambridge University estimate that 16,700 people are catching Covid-19 each day, while the Office for National Statistics puts the figure at 5,570 in the community. Read more...

Reddit's Alexis Ohanian RESIGNS to help 'curb racial hate'

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian made the shock announcement in a video uploaded to his Instagram page Friday midday. Read more...

Teacher in Ukraine arrested for murder after tying a pillow to one-year-old girl's face

Irina Sukhanova, 51, has been detained by police in Zaporizhia, south-eastern Ukraine, on suspicion of murder, according to law enforcement officials. Read more...

With or Without the Say of Players, College Football Moves Toward a Return

Players dont have a strong voice and have a union. Their voice is always suppressed, said Camren McDonald, a tight end at Florida State. Read more...

Wall Street rallies to end higher on surprise U.S. jobs report

Wall Street surged on Friday after a strikingly upbeat May jobs report unexpectedly provided the clearest evidence yet that the U.S. economy is headed for a quicker-than-anticipated recovery. Read more...

How wild swimming saved my life

Writer Joe Minihane was consumed with acute anxiety but since taking up wild swimming in the UK's ponds, rivers and coastal waters, he's learned to cope with the stresses that pushed him toward depression. Read more...